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The forest people turnbull6/12/2023 ![]() The Mbuti view their forest as a sacred, peaceful place to live-they constantly refer to it with not only reverence but adoration. A wonderful film about Mbuti life in the Ituri Forest, made in 1990, was uploaded to YouTube in 2013.īeliefs that Foster Peacefulness. The Mbuti who have moved to resettlement camps near Goma fabricate goods for sale or hold day laboring jobs in the city. For the people who remain in the Ituri Forest, much of the year they engage in their traditional forest hunting and gathering, but part of the year they also live with nearby farming villagers for whom they provide labor in exchange for outside goods and garden vegetables. Mbuti woman with termite mushrooms: “These are the best mushrooms I’ve ever had” - Terese Hart (teresehart’s photostream on Flickr, Creative Commons license)Įconomy. ![]() ![]() Colin Turnbull, in his world famous book The Forest People (1961), described the net hunting Mbuti, who subsist in the heart of the Ituri, and particularly the families who lived in the Epulu area. About 30,000 Mbuti Pygmies used to live in the Ituri rainforest of northeastern Congo, though many have fled to safety in resettlement camps near the Congolese city of Goma to escape the incessant fighting by militias and armies in their forests. ![]()
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Pen pal by jt6/12/2023 ![]() 2023: eBook (Download) Nightcrawling BY : Leila Mottley. ![]()
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Guiness book 20236/12/2023 ![]() “Great value, great quality, great beer.” “A four-pack of Bitburger will often find its way into my grocery cart whenever I hit Trader Joe's,” he says. “Obsidian Stout and Black Butte Porter from Deschutes are also staples whenever I'm in the Pacific Northwest.”īernstein points to Germany for his favorite pilsner. “ Guinness remains a great go-to on draft, and I'll usually buy a six-pack of Bell's Kalamazoo Stout when I spot it at stores,” he says. “When it comes to mass-market lagers, I have a soft spot for an icy longneck of Miller High Life.”īernstein isn’t enamored with adjunct-driven stouts. “ Sierra Nevada Pale Ale remains the benchmark by which all other pale ales are judged,” he says. I don't like my hazy IPAs to be all juice bombs, no bitterness.”īernstein is adamant about some old favorites. It also delivers a nice hit of bitterness. “Wrench from Industrial Arts never disappoints. “As far as hazy IPAs, I tend to look toward beers brewed in and around New York City,” he says. ![]()
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Book forty autumns6/12/2023 ![]() Though only a few miles separated American Nina and her German relatives-grandmother Oma, Aunt Heidi, and cousin, Cordula, a member of the East German Olympic training team-a bitter political war kept them apart. Growing up near Washington, D.C., Hanna’s daughter, Nina Willner became the first female Army Intelligence Officer to lead sensitive intelligence operations in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War. ![]() Uprooted, Hanna eventually moved to America, where she settled down with her husband and had children of her own. But the price of freedom-leaving behind her parents, eight siblings, and family home-was heartbreaking. At twenty, Hanna escaped from East to West Germany. Summary: In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family-of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall.įorty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two. ![]()
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The scarlet letter audio book6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That look of naughty merriment was likewise reflected in the mirror, with so much breadth and intensity of effect, that it made Hester Prynne feel as if it could not be the image of her own child, but of an imp who was seeking to mould itself into Pearl's shape. Pearl pointed upward, also, at a similar picture in the head-piece smiling at her mother, with the elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. In truth, she seemed absolutely hidden behind it. Hester looked, by way of humoring the child and she saw that, owing to the peculiar effect of this convex mirror, the scarlet letter was represented in exaggerated and gigantic proportions, so as to be greatly the most prominent feature of her appearance. Little Pearl-who was as greatly pleased with the gleaming armour as she had been with the glittering frontispiece of the house-spent some time looking into the polished mirror of the breastplate. ![]()
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We were always here samra habib6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() So begins an exploration of faith, art, love, and queer sexuality, a journey that takes them to the far reaches of the globe to uncover a truth that was within them all along. The men in Samra's life wanted to police them, the women in their life had only shown them the example of pious obedience, and their body was a problem to be solved. Backed into a corner, their need for a safe space-in which to grow and nurture their creative, feminist spirit-became dire. When their family came to Canada as refugees, Samra encountered a whole new host of bullies, racism, the threat of poverty, and an arranged marriage. From their parents, they internalized the lesson that revealing their identity could put them in grave danger. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, they faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous. Samra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to be themself. ![]() How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist? ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL QUEER BOOKS OF ALL TIME ![]() SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION ![]()
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Feed mira grant review6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The public is highly skeptical of the video and it is largely believed that the footage was being created for a mockumentary. Leaked footage from the ship appears to show mermaids slaughtering the crew. Though the ship is recovered weeks later, there is no trace of the crew. The ship was sent to the Mariana Trench by Imagine Entertainment, which specializes in filming B movies about mythical creatures. Seven years prior to the start of the story, the Atargatis is lost at sea. Tory vows to discover the truth about what happened to her sister. While filming a mockumentary about mermaids, the crew of Imagine's ship Atargatis vanished. ![]() Tory’s sister Anne worked as a reporter for Imagine Entertainment. It focuses on Tory Stewart, a sonar specialist who becomes obsessed with mermaids after her sister's disappearance. ![]() It is the follow-up to her 2015 novella Rolling in the Deep. Into the Drowning Deep is a 2017 science fiction horror novel by Mira Grant. ![]()
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Silverwing series books6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The series was also adapted into an animated series. During a time of evolutionary upheaval, he must lead his clan to safe new territory. Dusk, a chiropter (a fictional name the author uses to describe the species) is the first of his kind who can actually fly instead of glide. The little bats get blamed for it, landing Shade and his colony in a battle for the rights of all their kind.Īlso related to the trilogy is a fourth book, Darkwing, which was released in 2007 and explores prehistoric bats. Things get worse when Goth and Throbb, two giant carnivorous bats from Brazil, escape a research facility and begin killing birds and other creatures at will. ![]() After breaking one of the animal world's biggest rules, becoming a fugitive, and getting lost at sea during a migration, Shade goes on a wild adventure with a new friend, street-smart Tomboy Marina Brightwing. ![]() They're a sort of Gothic-esque fantasy adventure about bats, specifically the main character, Shade, a small Silverwing bat who is frequently mocked and called "Runt". The Silverwing trilogy is a series of books written by Kenneth Oppel, consisting of Silverwing (1997), Sunwing (1999), and Firewing (2002). Kenneth Oppel, "Author's Note" in Silverwing ![]()
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The best we could do author6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() These two stories providing an interesting counterpoint to each other – the mother grew up in the social elite, attending French schools, and vowing never to give up her freedom and dreams by marrying or having children. ![]() We see her father’s childhood unfold, and then her mother’s. We see the long, difficult conversations she had with her father, and the way her mother opened up more easily to the author’s Caucasian husband about her past than she could with her own daughter. In fact, the very process of her seeking to uncover her parents’ stories is woven into the narrative itself. ![]() The author herself arrived in the US as a toddler (after her family fled Vietnam), so the book centers more on her parents’ stories. The Best We Could Do is a graphic memoir, in the tradition of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis or Nina Bunjevac’s Fatherland. Yet the two books complemented each other in interesting ways. In one sense they’re very different from one another – the first is a memoir in graphic novel format, and the second is a collection of short stories. The books are The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui and The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It wasn’t particularly intentional on my part, but I love it when I find unexpected connections in books that I read. Two of the best books I’ve read this year were by Vietnamese-American authors. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() "Oskar, I'm not a girl," she tells him, and she's not kidding-she's a vampire. It features Oskar, a lonely, bullied child, and Eli, the girl next door. Set in a snowy, surburban housing estate in 1980s Stockholm, the film combines supernatural elements with social realism. Like Twilight, Let the Right One In is a love story between a human and a vampire-but that is where the resemblance ends. ![]() Directed by Tomas Alfredson and adapted for the screen by John Ajvide Lindqvist, The Swedish film Làt den rätte komma in (2008), known to American audiences as Let the Right One In, is the most exciting, subversive, and original horror production since the genre's best-known works of the 1970s. Twilight, True Blood, Being Human, The Vampire Diaries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Blade, Underworld, and the novels of Anne Rice and Darren Shan-against this glut of bloodsuckers, it takes an incredible film to make a name for itself. Audiences can't get enough of fang fiction. ![]() |